Bogota High School

Bogota Jr./Sr. High School is a comprehensive public high school that serves students in seventh through twelfth grade from Bogota, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Bogota Public Schools. There are several activities the students engage in from sports to clubs.

As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 571 students and 39.6 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.42:1. There were 157 students (27.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 57 (10.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.^[1]

Awards, recognition and rankings

The school was the 259th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 328 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2012 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 151st in 2010 out of 322 schools listed.^[2] The magazine ranked the school 173rd in 2008 out of 316 schools.^[3] The school was ranked 132nd in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.^[4] Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 278th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 48 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).^[5]

Athletics

The Bogota High School Buccaneers compete in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference (NJIC), following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association.^[6] Prior to realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Bogota was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League (BCSL) in the Olympic Division. With 278 students in grades 10 to 12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2011-12 school year as North I Group I, a category that included schools with enrollment of 157 to 489 in those three grades.^[7]

The 1969 boys baseball team, led by Rich Graham, won the Bergen County Baseball Tournament defeating Bergenfield High School. Rich Graham was recognized by The Record (Bergen County) as its Athlete of the Week for his superlative efforts as well as being named the MVP of the tournament.^{[citation needed]}

The 1990 boys basketball team, led by former North Carolina Tar Heel Pat Sullivan, won the NJ Group I state basketball title, as well as the Bergen County Tournament defeating non-public power Bergen Catholic High School in the championship game.^[8]

The Buccaneers came into the 2006 state football tournament ranked first in their bracket, and proceeded to beat #8 seed Cresskill High School 36-7 in the first round and fourth-ranked Hasbrouck Heights High School by 24-17 in the semifinal game.^[9] On December 1, 2006, Bogota beat #6 seed Mountain Lakes High School 28-0 at Giants Stadium, to take home the North 1, Group I state championship. This was Bogota's first football state championship since 1957, and their first since the playoff era started in the 1970s.^[10][11]

The boys cross country team won the 2006, 2007 and 2008 Bergen County Division D Championship.^[12]

On March 8, 2009, Emmanuel Ajagbe became Bogota's first wrestling state champion, claiming the 145 pound title at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.^[13]

Clubs

Clubs and extracurricular activities are:

• YAC
• DECA
• Yearbook Committee
• MultiCultural Club
• Math Club
• Chess Club
• The Klaxon Committee
• The Drama Club
• Sporting Teams

Administration

Core members of the school's administration are:^[14]

• Linda R. Gattuso, Principal
• Damian Kennedy, Vice Principal

References

External links

• Bogota High School
• Bogota Public Schools
• Bogota Public Schools's 2010–11 School Report Card from the New Jersey Department of Education
• Data for the Bogota Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics

Coordinates: 40°52′41″N 74°01′28″W / 40.878106°N 74.024565°W / 40.878106; -74.024565

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